"My Lords, returning briefly to my noble friend Lord Young’s question, I noticed that the Minister has unwontedly not mentioned the £22 billion black hole. Can he tell us what the current shortfall is?..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"My Lords, how does the Minister explain some of the following statistics, all of which come from government sources? The number of people expected to go on to long-term benefits will rise from 3.3 million to 4.1 million over this Parliament. Some 3,000 people are signing on every day. In …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"My Lords, last week the chairman of the junior doctors—or, now, resident doctors—committee of the BMA put out a tweet saying, “You do not have to tell your employer if you are striking”. I thought of that as I listened to the noble Baroness, Lady O’Grady, talking about how reasonable, …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"My Lords, does the Minister accept that there is a point when higher tax rates lead to lower government revenues? We heard an example from my noble friend Lord Leigh in the last Question that the Minister dealt with about non-doms provoking some companies to change their domicile or listing. …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"My Lords, in his first answer, the Minister used the phrase, “lost control of the economy”, which is familiar from the election. It is a very telling phrase. Which bits of the economy would he like to control that are not currently controlled? Is not the reality that the problem …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the fresh and humane takes of the noble Lord, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port.
The public see a collective political failure: that was the phrase used by the noble Baroness, Lady Alexander of Cleveden, in her excellent—indeed, outstanding—contribution. As she …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"My Lords, again I feel that I am slightly swimming against the tide in opposing this amendment, which seems to me rooted in the outlook that I think of as “good chappery”— I am borrowing the nomenclature of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, in introducing it. It is the idea …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"Not all the speeches, no: my noble friend Lord Howard was indeed one who spoke in favour of the education centre.
It seems to me that, once we start making these changes, the pressure is going to be for widening rather than narrowing the route by which people come here. …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"My Lords, is the Minister aware of studies showing that exposure to trace amounts of potential allergens builds resilience? I think specifically of the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy study, which tracked a number of children who were thought to be vulnerable because they had intolerances to other things, eczema …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech
"My Lords, I promise not to detain the House for long. I want to come back on the exchange between my noble friends Lord Pickles and Lord Robathan, because the insinuation was made that there is antisemitism in the governing party of Poland. We have been talking in this debate …..." Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - View Speech